The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast

Dr Bella D'Abrera - "Mindless: How the Education System is Indoctrinating Our Children and Destroying Our Civilisation"

My guest today is Dr Bella D'Abrera a well-known Australian academic who was for many years Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs. Amongst other things she is now on the Advisory Committee for the Australian National Archives and a regular contributor to The Spectator Australia, the Herald Sun, the Daily Telegraph and The Australian, and appears regularly on Sky News. Today we discuss: * How she describes the ideology which is being taught to our children and whether it is correct to describe it as Marxist * How exactly did this ideology come to seize the commanding heights of our education system * How to push back against the argument that modern education is simply being kind and tolerant? * What solutions are there for parents looking to protect their kids? And much much more. https://x.com/belladabrera?s=20 [https://x.com/belladabrera?s=20] https://www.amazon.com.au/Mindless-Education-Indoctrinating-Destroying-Civilisation/dp/1764484908?ref_=Oct_d_otopr_d_4897353051_0&pd_rd_w=uVpan&content-id=amzn1.sym.69547269-75b4-4a51-b300-2e4234beacb4&pf_rd_p=69547269-75b4-4a51-b300-2e4234beacb4&pf_rd_r=6DQ8Q5PY5GQJNTMFRVK0&pd_rd_wg=GxDpP&pd_rd_r=65983723-8174-41f3-856c-d54838afb71a&pd_rd_i=1764484908 [https://www.amazon.com.au/Mindless-Education-Indoctrinating-Destroying-Civilisation/dp/1764484908?ref_=Oct_d_otopr_d_4897353051_0&pd_rd_w=uVpan&content-id=amzn1.sym.69547269-75b4-4a51-b300-2e4234beacb4&pf_rd_p=69547269-75b4-4a51-b300-2e4234beacb4&pf_rd_r=6DQ8Q5PY5GQJNTMFRVK0&pd_rd_wg=GxDpP&pd_rd_r=65983723-8174-41f3-856c-d54838afb71a&pd_rd_i=1764484908]

Barnaby Joyce - What Really Explains One Nation's Recent Meteoric Rise?

My guest today is former deputy Prime Minister of Australia and now One Nation MP, Barnaby Joyce . Today we discuss: * How he explains his new party's meteoric rise in the polls over the last 12 months * Is One Nation just a protest party? If not, what is the governing philosophy of One Nation and how does it differ from The Liberal Party and The National Party * Why the traditional centre-right parties adopting some of One Nation positions hasn’t improved their polls * What positions he has rethought over the last 10 years and how things have changed since the Howard era * Where he thinks it all ends And much much more https://barnabyjoyce.com.au/ [https://barnabyjoyce.com.au/]

Parnell Palme McGuinness - The Politically Young and Restless in Modern Australia

Parnell is an insights and advocacy strategist and a senior fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, an Australian classical market think tank. She also writes a weekly column for the Sun-Herald and the Sunday Age on politics, policy and culture. Today we discuss: * Her well-known columnist father, his political transformation, and whether her views have changed over the years * Whether there needs to be an update to the Howard era right thinking on trade and immigration * How young people (25-34) in Australia are feeling about the economy based on her recent research * Whether AI is going to kill journalism and all white collar jobs within 18 months as the head of Microsoft AI recently claimed And much more https://www.cis.org.au/person/parnell-palme-mcguinness/ [https://www.cis.org.au/person/parnell-palme-mcguinness/]

Dr James L Nuzzo - The Perils of Gender Politics and What Do To About It

James L. Nuzzo, PhD, is an exercise scientist and men’s health researcher. Dr. Nuzzo has published over 80 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He writes regularly about exercise, men’s health, and academia at The Nuzzo Letter, with additional writings appearing at Reality’s Last Stand and Australians for Science & Freedom. In 2025, Dr. Nuzzo documented his academic cancellation using a freedom of information request. Today we discuss: 1. His termination from his position at an Australian university and how the end of “woke” and cancellation politics has been greatly exaggerated 2. How he got involved in the gender politics and how his research reveals data that is often very different to what is presented in the mainstream press 3. The radicalisation of young women in the West and what should be done about it 4. What he understands by the term “feminism” and how gender issues should be discussed 5. Whether there are any causes for optimism And much much more. James L. Nuzzo, PhD, CSCS The Nuzzo Letter (Substack) [https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/] ResearchGate [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Nuzzo] Google Scholar [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=f2hQeR4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao] Twitter (X) [https://x.com/JamesLNuzzo] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-l-nuzzo-2575a51b2/] jameslnuzzo.com [http://jameslnuzzo.com] Go Fund Me (Research Support) [https://www.gofundme.com/f/ChildStrengthResearch]

David Goodhart - The "Somewheres" and The "Anywheres" 10 Years After The Brexit Vote

My guest today is David Goodhart, a British journalist who is the author of several influential books including “The Road to Somewhere”, "Head, Hand, and Heart", and most recently “The Care Dilemma”. Today we discuss: 1. Whether there has been any bridging of the divide between the “Somewheres” and the “Anywheres” since he wrote his book 2. The extent to which his work has parallels with Disraeli’s criticisms of liberalism and the cosmopolitan class? 3. Whether centre-right parties really understand “one nation” conservatism 4. Whether AI has changed the respect power of the “Anywheres” and the cognitive class 5. What the Care Dilemma is, how we need a better way of accounting for the true costs that have arisen due to female entry in to the workforce, and what we should do about this 6. His plans for the future including a potential play on the Bretton Woods conference And much much more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goodhart [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goodhart]